Crannagh
Crannagh is a townland in the civil parish of Ballyadams, barony of Ballyadams, Co. Laois. Its name in Irish is Crannach.
Parcel 245516
- Area
- 234,169 m² (23.42 ha, 57.86 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Crannagh
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Ballyprior Grassland SAC 002256
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 193.1 ha
- 477 acres
- Land parcels
- 41
- registered freehold, median 14,342 m² (1.43 ha, 3.54 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crannagh, from 1,494 m² to 389,573 m² (38.96 ha, 96.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Crannagh in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
20 May 2025Conditional
construct a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area, connection to watermains, new splayed entrance and associated site work
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2560302
7 May 2025Conditional
construct an A Roof Agricultural shed complete with underslat effluent storage tank, concrete feed passage and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560275
13 Mar 2025Conditional
amend previously granted planning ref 21863 as follows, Design of dwelling changed from a two storey to a dormer style and associated site work
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560121
15 Oct 2024Conditional
Retain altered pitch of roof to accommodate rooms in attic and for alterations to porch and window above porch of dwelling house from that previously granted planning permission reference number 98/357 & all ancillary site works.
Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2460619
21 Dec 2021Conditional
construct a new serviced dwelling house and domestic garage with associated septic tank and percolation area
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21903
13 Dec 2021Conditional
construct a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area, connection to watermains, new splayed entrance and associated site work
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21863
19 Nov 2019Conditional
construct a two storey dwelling house with attached garage, a packaged wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, new entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 19630
6 Nov 2019Conditional
alter boundaries of site and carry out modifications to entrance from that which was granted with 99/674 and all necessary site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19610
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Crannagh.
Recorded monuments
- LA019-070 Enclosure
Description
Aerial photograph (GB90.CM.18) shows cropmark of a curvilinear enclosure defined by a fosse. First recorded as a positive cropmark in July 1990. The above report has been compiled by Dr. G.F. Barrett and supplied to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of this report: 01 February 2010 Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 13 August 2010
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Crannagh.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Crannagh, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Crannagh.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Crannagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Crannagh · Crannach
- Area
- 1,930,851 m² (193.09 ha, 477.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyadams, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballyadams
- Electoral division
- Ballyadams, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 437 people lived in 135 households in the Ballyadams electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballintlea, Ballintubbert, Ballycoolan, Ballyprior, Rathmore, Tullomoy
- Placenames
- Crannagh on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.